This survey method tends to generate the lowest response rate, compared to others.
What are web surveys?
100
Qualitative/unstructured interviews are more appropriate for this type of research.
What is exploratory research?
100
A study to determine if students living on campus feel more or less safe than those who live off campus would involve this type of analysis.
What is bivariate analysis?
100
The variable held constant in the elaboration model.
What is the test variable?
100
Hypothesis assuming that there is no relationship between two variables.
What is the null?
200
Questions that can be used in questionnaires and surveys to reduce the number of questions individuals have to respond to that may not apply to them.
What are screening and contingency questions?
200
This is an inductive approach to the study of social life that involves the constant comparison of unfolding observations.
What is Grounded Theory?
200
The step of qualitative data analysis that involves classifying or categorizing individual pieces of data and setting up a retrieval system.
What is coding?
200
This is the difference between interpretation and explanation.
What is time placement of the test variable?
200
This is the appropriate measure of association for two nominal level variables.
What is Chi-square or Lambda?
300
The type of bias that occurs when those who respond to a survey are different (e.g., less educated, lower income, less politically involved) from those who do not respond.
What is nonresponse bias?
300
This quasi-experimental research design includes an existing group as a comparison to the experimental group.
What is the nonequivalent control group design?
300
The study of signs.
What is semiotics?
300
An example of this type of multivariate relationship is when age is introduced as a test factor, then the relationship between education and occupation is weakened or disappears.
What is explanation?
300
If the mean is 22 and the standard deviation for the sample is 5, then we know that 68% of sample values fall in this range.
What is 17 - 27?
400
The questionnaire item “Did you file federal and state income tax returns last year?” is an example of this type of question.
What is double-barreled?
400
Term for when individuals being observed alter their behavior because they know they are being studied.
What is reactivity or the Hawthorne effect?
400
Measures that describe how data is distributed.
What are measures of dispersion?
400
An example of this type of multivariate relationship is when the relationship between sports participation and community involvement becomes non-significant, when time in college is controlled for.
What is interpretation?
400
The appropriate measure of association for analyzing the relationship between economic status and education (if these are both ordinal variables).
What is Chi-square, Lambda, Gamma, Kendall’s Tau, Sommer’s d?
500
These types of questions should be asked first in interviews and last in questionnaires.
What are demographic questions?
500
Standing the wrong way in an elevator is an example of this type of field experiment.
What is a breaching experiment?
500
The median for this sequence of numbers: 8, 12, 9, 15, 17, 11, 13, 14, 7.
What is 12?
500
This type of variable is at work when a test variable reverses the direction of the zero-order relationship.
What is a distorter variable?
500
To examine differences in a interval/ratio level dependent variable (e.g. income), between the the levels of an ordinal independent variable (e.g. level of education attained) you can conduct this test.